UN Security Council delegation to visit Lebanon Friday 'at crucial time'
A United Nations Security Council delegation will visit Lebanon on Friday and Saturday after visiting Syria in the first-ever visit to the country.
Slovenian U.N. ambassador Samuel Zbogar told a press conference on Monday that "the visit to Lebanon is the first official visit of the Security Council to the Middle East in six years".
Slovenia currently holds the rotating presidency of the U.N.'s top body.
The trip comes "at a crucial time for the region", Zbogar said, noting a year-old ceasefire in Lebanon "which we see daily that is being challenged".
The visit is important in "expressing support and solidarity with both countries, and learning about the challenges, conveying the messages, also, on the path forward that the council would like to see in both countries", he added.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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